Italian-German Mafia operation sees 37 arrested
Rinzivillo clan clobbered, two Carabinieri among suspects
(ANSA) - Rome, October 4 - The authorities in Italy and Germany embarked on a huge operation targeting to the Gela-based Rinzivillo clan on Wednesday. Police were executing arrest warrants for 37 people in Sicily, Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna in Italy and in Germany.
Assets worth 11 million euros were seized as part of the operation. A Roman lawyer and two Carabinieri police officers were among the people arrested. The cops are accused of illegal access to the force's databases. They are suspected of passing on confidential information to members of the clan, which has long been allied with the Madonia and Corleonesi groups. The lawyer is suspected of being a go-between for the mafia with other professionals.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/1 ... aff9c.html
News from Italy
Moderator: Capos
Re: News from Italy
Italy Breaks up Libyan Fuel Smuggling Ring Involving Mafia
Steve Scherer, US News & World Report
October 18, 2017
ROME (Reuters) - Sicilian police on Wednesday sought the arrest of nine people, including a suspected mobster, for running a Libyan fuel-smuggling ring in which at least 30 million euros ($35 million) of diesel was sold in gas stations in Italy and Europe.
A Libyan, nicknamed the "boss", used small boats to steal fuel from a refinery in Zawiya, a port city west of Tripoli, a statement from the finance police said.
The fuel, stolen from Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), was then transferred to a larger ship off the coast of Malta and brought to Italy.
Police from the Sicilian city of Catania "documented in detail 30 voyages in which more than 80 million kilos of diesel fuel was imported," the statement said.
For the first time, the Catania court authorized the use of technology capable of listening in on satellite phone calls during the investigation, police said.
Six of the nine have been arrested and an international arrest warrant has been issued for the other three, who are abroad.
One of the men arrested, Nicola Romeo, has been accused of being a member of the Santapaola clan of the Sicilian mafia, while the Libyan, Fahmi Mousa Saleem Ben Khalifa, is already in custody in Libya on accusations of fuel smuggling.
Another Italian man headed a seemingly legitimate company used to distribute the stolen fuel in gas stations in Italy, France and Spain, police said.
The Italian company offered its diesel to distributors for up to 60 percent less than market prices.
Though the quality of the diesel, which was meant for ships' engines, was of a lower standard than that used by vehicles in Italy, it was sold at the same price.
($1 = 0.8499 euros)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... ving-mafia
Steve Scherer, US News & World Report
October 18, 2017
ROME (Reuters) - Sicilian police on Wednesday sought the arrest of nine people, including a suspected mobster, for running a Libyan fuel-smuggling ring in which at least 30 million euros ($35 million) of diesel was sold in gas stations in Italy and Europe.
A Libyan, nicknamed the "boss", used small boats to steal fuel from a refinery in Zawiya, a port city west of Tripoli, a statement from the finance police said.
The fuel, stolen from Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), was then transferred to a larger ship off the coast of Malta and brought to Italy.
Police from the Sicilian city of Catania "documented in detail 30 voyages in which more than 80 million kilos of diesel fuel was imported," the statement said.
For the first time, the Catania court authorized the use of technology capable of listening in on satellite phone calls during the investigation, police said.
Six of the nine have been arrested and an international arrest warrant has been issued for the other three, who are abroad.
One of the men arrested, Nicola Romeo, has been accused of being a member of the Santapaola clan of the Sicilian mafia, while the Libyan, Fahmi Mousa Saleem Ben Khalifa, is already in custody in Libya on accusations of fuel smuggling.
Another Italian man headed a seemingly legitimate company used to distribute the stolen fuel in gas stations in Italy, France and Spain, police said.
The Italian company offered its diesel to distributors for up to 60 percent less than market prices.
Though the quality of the diesel, which was meant for ships' engines, was of a lower standard than that used by vehicles in Italy, it was sold at the same price.
($1 = 0.8499 euros)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... ving-mafia
All roads lead to New York.
-
SonnyBlackstein
- Filthy Few
- Posts: 7579
- Joined: Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:21 am
Re: News from Italy
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
Re: News from Italy
That dude’s forehead is like a sledgehammer
Re: News from Italy
Nearly 170 arrested in anti-mafia operation in Italy and Germany
Philip Pullella
ROME (Reuters) - Nearly 170 people, including mayors, businessmen and local administrators, were arrested on Tuesday in a large anti-mafia blitz in Italy and Germany against clan members who controlled restaurants, garbage collection and funeral services.
Police and investigators told a news conference that most of the arrests, which totalled 169 by early afternoon, were carried out in the southern Italian region of Calabria, base of the ‘Ndrangheta crime group. More could be apprehended, they said.
In recent years the ‘Ndrangheta has overtaken the Cosa Nostra, or Sicilian mob, in drugs and arms trafficking and extortion rackets, extending its tentacles into northern Europe, the United States and Canada.
In Germany, police also arrested about a dozen men, as part of the same operation, on suspicion of blackmail, attempted murder, money laundering and other organised crime offences.
Police searched six apartments and four restaurants in Germany and confiscated cash, mobile phones, documents and storage devices, they said.
Investigators said the clans of the Farao and Marincola families, based in the Calabrian city of Ciro Marina, had infiltrated businesses in both countries, particularly firms involved in wine, food, garbage collection and funeral services.
At least three Italian mayors were arrested, including the mayor of Ciro Marina, as well as a number of city councillors.
The clan members forced restaurants to buy meat, fish, wine and other produce from complicit retailers or wholesalers associated with the mob.
The farmers’ group Coldiretti estimates that at least 5,000 restaurants in Italy are in criminal hands and that the so-called “agro-mafia” business, including harvesting and distribution, is worth about 21.8 billion euros a year.
The clans also took control of some private garbage collection and recycling companies as well as funeral services, forcing people to use them instead of others.
In at least one case, investigators found links between the ‘Ndrangheta and managers of a government-financed migrant shelter on the Calabrian coast.
Most of the tens of thousands of migrants who have made the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe land first in Sicily but many are later moved to shelters on the mainland, including Calabria.
Arrests were also made in several regions of central and northern Italy.
Eurojust, the Netherlands-based group that helps coordinate investigations and prosecutions of cross-border crime in the European Union, said in a statement that some of the Italian food producers were used as front companies to launder illicit profits made through other criminal activities.
There are believed to be about 100 ‘Ndrangheta families in Calabria, and they have become more successful than their Sicilian counterparts because their family ties are closer.
The ‘Ngrangheta’s more horizontal structure - which gives families more independence - has made it harder for investigators to crack than the Sicilian mob, which is based on a hierarchical structure with fewer top bosses.
Philip Pullella
ROME (Reuters) - Nearly 170 people, including mayors, businessmen and local administrators, were arrested on Tuesday in a large anti-mafia blitz in Italy and Germany against clan members who controlled restaurants, garbage collection and funeral services.
Police and investigators told a news conference that most of the arrests, which totalled 169 by early afternoon, were carried out in the southern Italian region of Calabria, base of the ‘Ndrangheta crime group. More could be apprehended, they said.
In recent years the ‘Ndrangheta has overtaken the Cosa Nostra, or Sicilian mob, in drugs and arms trafficking and extortion rackets, extending its tentacles into northern Europe, the United States and Canada.
In Germany, police also arrested about a dozen men, as part of the same operation, on suspicion of blackmail, attempted murder, money laundering and other organised crime offences.
Police searched six apartments and four restaurants in Germany and confiscated cash, mobile phones, documents and storage devices, they said.
Investigators said the clans of the Farao and Marincola families, based in the Calabrian city of Ciro Marina, had infiltrated businesses in both countries, particularly firms involved in wine, food, garbage collection and funeral services.
At least three Italian mayors were arrested, including the mayor of Ciro Marina, as well as a number of city councillors.
The clan members forced restaurants to buy meat, fish, wine and other produce from complicit retailers or wholesalers associated with the mob.
The farmers’ group Coldiretti estimates that at least 5,000 restaurants in Italy are in criminal hands and that the so-called “agro-mafia” business, including harvesting and distribution, is worth about 21.8 billion euros a year.
The clans also took control of some private garbage collection and recycling companies as well as funeral services, forcing people to use them instead of others.
In at least one case, investigators found links between the ‘Ndrangheta and managers of a government-financed migrant shelter on the Calabrian coast.
Most of the tens of thousands of migrants who have made the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe land first in Sicily but many are later moved to shelters on the mainland, including Calabria.
Arrests were also made in several regions of central and northern Italy.
Eurojust, the Netherlands-based group that helps coordinate investigations and prosecutions of cross-border crime in the European Union, said in a statement that some of the Italian food producers were used as front companies to launder illicit profits made through other criminal activities.
There are believed to be about 100 ‘Ndrangheta families in Calabria, and they have become more successful than their Sicilian counterparts because their family ties are closer.
The ‘Ngrangheta’s more horizontal structure - which gives families more independence - has made it harder for investigators to crack than the Sicilian mob, which is based on a hierarchical structure with fewer top bosses.
-
SILENT PARTNERZ
- Full Patched
- Posts: 1211
- Joined: Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:14 am
Re: News from Italy
Is Spada family members of N'Drangeta, Sicilian Mafia , or Cammora?SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:54 pm http://nypost.com/2017/11/10/mafia-thug ... interview/
Who rules Rome? Or do all three have a presence?
Thanks Italian experts.
'three can keep a secret, if two are dead'
-
scagghiuni
- Full Patched
- Posts: 1139
- Joined: Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:04 am
Re: News from Italy
spada is a gypsy clan, is independent
both sicilian cosa nostra, ndrangheta and camorra are present in rome and they are the strongest groups over there
in the 1980s there was a local gang 'banda della magliana' but it was dismanted in the 1990s
both sicilian cosa nostra, ndrangheta and camorra are present in rome and they are the strongest groups over there
in the 1980s there was a local gang 'banda della magliana' but it was dismanted in the 1990s
Re: News from Italy
Banda Della Magliana still exists, called Nuova Banda della Magliana, the leader of Nuova Banda Della Magliana,Fausto Pellegrinetti was arrested this year in January in Spain,he was on the run since 1993. According to pentito Antonio Mancini in 2012,banda della magliana is still in business in Rome.scagghiuni wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:15 pm spada is a gypsy clan, is independent
both sicilian cosa nostra, ndrangheta and camorra are present in rome and they are the strongest groups over there
in the 1980s there was a local gang 'banda della magliana' but it was dismanted in the 1990s
One of most powerful people in Rome is Sicilian,they consider him "boss of bosses" in Rome , Giovanni De Carlo aka "The Billionaire".
Mafia in Rome is usually referred to as 'Mafia Capitale' ,few years ago most powerful members of organized crime in Rome all went down , together with mayor of Rome ,Gianni Alemanno,he became mayor by buying votes with help of 'Ndrangheta Mancuso clan and mafia capitale members.
Also one interesting thing to point out, Salvatore Buzzi,powerful figure in mafia capitale , was recorded saying: "drug trafficking earns less" referring to migrant crisis in Italy.Which just shows how much mafia is profiting from whole migrant crisis.
Re: News from Italy
Salvatore Buzzi,saying "drug trafficking earns less".
-
scagghiuni
- Full Patched
- Posts: 1139
- Joined: Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:04 am
Re: News from Italy
banda della magliana doesn't exist anymore
there are ex members still active linked with sicilians, calabrians and neapolitans
but the gang died in 1990 after the murder of enrico de pedis
there are ex members still active linked with sicilians, calabrians and neapolitans
but the gang died in 1990 after the murder of enrico de pedis
Re: News from Italy
Luigi Venezia 59 has been shot dead in the town of Lentini,he was a policeman who in the 1990s escaped a murder ordered by the Laudani mafia clan from Catania.
Re: News from Italy
120 mn seized from fibre optics 'king' in mafia case
(ANSA) - Rome, March 7 - Finance police on Wednesday seized assets worth over 120 million euros from Calogero Romano, an Agrigento businessman who owns several firms in the telecommunications and fibre-optic sectors, as well as construction businesses and a motor-racing track, sources said. The operation was in relation to a Mafia case, the sources said. Romano allegedly built his business empire with the help of Cosa Nostra bosses.
In 2016 he was convicted of external involvement in mafia association and handed a jail term of six years, six months.
Source: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2018/0 ... 8e264.html
(ANSA) - Rome, March 7 - Finance police on Wednesday seized assets worth over 120 million euros from Calogero Romano, an Agrigento businessman who owns several firms in the telecommunications and fibre-optic sectors, as well as construction businesses and a motor-racing track, sources said. The operation was in relation to a Mafia case, the sources said. Romano allegedly built his business empire with the help of Cosa Nostra bosses.
In 2016 he was convicted of external involvement in mafia association and handed a jail term of six years, six months.
Source: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2018/0 ... 8e264.html
Re: News from Italy
What is the current status/stature of La Stidda and Sacra Corona Unita?
-
aleksandrored
- Full Patched
- Posts: 1671
- Joined: Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:24 pm
Re: News from Italy
Ndrangheta, arrested in Calabria Giuseppe Pelle: he is the son of the superboss and regent of the clan:
REGGIO CALABRIA - The fugitives of the boss Giuseppe "Peppe" Pelle are over . The 58-year-old son of 'Ntoni Pelle Gambazza, historical patriarch who wrote in his own hand the history of the 'Calabrian ndrangheta, was identified by the men of the Flying Squad of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the colleagues of the Sco, in an isolated house, near Condufuri, a few kilometers from "his" San Luca. The boss was hiding in one of the most inaccessible districts of the entire province, where the first slopes of the Aspromonte begin to climb towards the peaks, the roads become mountain mule tracks, hardly passable, and the rivers are transformed into natural trenches. Almost a natural bunker, largely guarded by sentinels of the clans, besieged this night by fifty men of the mobile team of Reggio Calabria, which only thanks to off-road have managed to get closer to the boss's lair. With the lights off, they approached the house, then the operation was taken. Fifty officers quickly approached the house, threw down the door and entered, while other agents were girding the entire area to avert any attempts to escape. Nothing had to go wrong. No unforeseen event had to ruin the final operation that came to more than two years of investigations. Surprised inside the house with other men, the boss was sleeping on a sofa. He was completely dressed, ready to flee, but the Mobile blitz was too quick and silent to notice anything. When he opened his eyes, Pelle was already surrounded and could not help but give up without any resistance. "I give up, I'm not armed". On him hung a warrant for a mafia association last summer, plus a residual sentence of two years and five months to be served on a previous conviction for the Mafia. An important result - underlines the Questore Raffaele Grassi - "in the war of liberation from the 'Ndrangheta that judiciary and law enforcement agencies carry out in these years, Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. liberation of the territory ". order carry on in these years. Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. And this is a war of liberation of the territory ". order carry on in these years. Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. And this is a war of liberation of the territory ".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHk7XFEvKQ
REGGIO CALABRIA - The fugitives of the boss Giuseppe "Peppe" Pelle are over . The 58-year-old son of 'Ntoni Pelle Gambazza, historical patriarch who wrote in his own hand the history of the 'Calabrian ndrangheta, was identified by the men of the Flying Squad of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the colleagues of the Sco, in an isolated house, near Condufuri, a few kilometers from "his" San Luca. The boss was hiding in one of the most inaccessible districts of the entire province, where the first slopes of the Aspromonte begin to climb towards the peaks, the roads become mountain mule tracks, hardly passable, and the rivers are transformed into natural trenches. Almost a natural bunker, largely guarded by sentinels of the clans, besieged this night by fifty men of the mobile team of Reggio Calabria, which only thanks to off-road have managed to get closer to the boss's lair. With the lights off, they approached the house, then the operation was taken. Fifty officers quickly approached the house, threw down the door and entered, while other agents were girding the entire area to avert any attempts to escape. Nothing had to go wrong. No unforeseen event had to ruin the final operation that came to more than two years of investigations. Surprised inside the house with other men, the boss was sleeping on a sofa. He was completely dressed, ready to flee, but the Mobile blitz was too quick and silent to notice anything. When he opened his eyes, Pelle was already surrounded and could not help but give up without any resistance. "I give up, I'm not armed". On him hung a warrant for a mafia association last summer, plus a residual sentence of two years and five months to be served on a previous conviction for the Mafia. An important result - underlines the Questore Raffaele Grassi - "in the war of liberation from the 'Ndrangheta that judiciary and law enforcement agencies carry out in these years, Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. liberation of the territory ". order carry on in these years. Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. And this is a war of liberation of the territory ". order carry on in these years. Pelle is the thirteenth fugitive identified by the police in the last three years. And this is a war of liberation of the territory ".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwHk7XFEvKQ
-
aleksandrored
- Full Patched
- Posts: 1671
- Joined: Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:24 pm
Re: News from Italy
As we are talking about the corleonesi in the other topic, here is the latest news regarding them:
02 May 2018 - The new mafia in Corleone, 6 sentences on appeal: 15 years to the head of the court
The court of appeal of Palermo has largely confirmed the sentences imposed in the first instance to six defendants accused in various ways of mafia and extortion. A fifteen-year sentence for Rosario Lo Bue, named as the new capomafia of Corleone, six years and eight months at Pietro Pollichino, 9 years and 8 months at Vincenzo Pellitteri (10 years at the first grade), 8 years and 8 months at Salvatore Pellitteri (born in 1976), 9 years to Roberto Pellitteri and Salvatore Pellitteri (class of 1992).
According to the accusation, Rosario Lo Bue, 75 years old, officially was a pastor, while he was guiding the mandate that came from Riina and Provenzano. According to the Carabinieri of Monreale, it was an old-fashioned mafia boss.
The Carabinieri of the Investigative Corps and the Corleone company arrested Lo Bue together with the men he would choose to lead the clans of Chiusa Sclafani and Contessa Entellina, judged in another trial. To control the territory the new bosses were referring to the repertoire of always made of lace and intimidation.
02 May 2018 - The new mafia in Corleone, 6 sentences on appeal: 15 years to the head of the court
The court of appeal of Palermo has largely confirmed the sentences imposed in the first instance to six defendants accused in various ways of mafia and extortion. A fifteen-year sentence for Rosario Lo Bue, named as the new capomafia of Corleone, six years and eight months at Pietro Pollichino, 9 years and 8 months at Vincenzo Pellitteri (10 years at the first grade), 8 years and 8 months at Salvatore Pellitteri (born in 1976), 9 years to Roberto Pellitteri and Salvatore Pellitteri (class of 1992).
According to the accusation, Rosario Lo Bue, 75 years old, officially was a pastor, while he was guiding the mandate that came from Riina and Provenzano. According to the Carabinieri of Monreale, it was an old-fashioned mafia boss.
The Carabinieri of the Investigative Corps and the Corleone company arrested Lo Bue together with the men he would choose to lead the clans of Chiusa Sclafani and Contessa Entellina, judged in another trial. To control the territory the new bosses were referring to the repertoire of always made of lace and intimidation.